Inside Korea’s Social Impact

  In my previous post, I explored the role of newsletters in Korea’s social impact sector.   <Read the previous post> The Power of Newsletters in Connecting the Social Impact Ecosystem   Among the examples introduced, one of the most representative is Orange Letter, a leading newsletter in the field.   Orange Letter is a weekly newsletter that curates information across the social sector — including nonprofits, social enterprises, social ventures, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. It covers job postings, news, educational programs, events, and fundraising campaigns. Most of its content is gathered through community submissions and compiled into a structured format.   Since its launch in June 2018, the newsletter has been consistently delivering updates from the social impact sector for eight years. It now has approximately 25,000 subscribers.   The newsletter is published by My Orange, an impact-tech startup. O...

  We truly live in an age of information overload. Through news outlets, social media, and countless platforms, we are constantly exposed to an overwhelming amount of content. In Korea especially, where IT infrastructure is highly advanced, it takes less than a second to find the information we need on a smartphone.   The social impact sector is no exception. A vast amount of news and information is produced every day. Reflecting on my time as a journalist, whenever I covered a specific event and wrote an article, numerous similar articles would appear at once. This was because many reporters attended the same event, and media coverage was often based on press releases distributed by the organizers.   In such an environment, it becomes surprisingly difficult to identify the information that truly matters. (As a journalist, I had to process far more information than most people. There were days when I wished someone would simply curate everything I needed to read.)...